Refrigerator



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o. B. GARDNER.

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Patented Deo. 6, 1887.

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110.374,18@ Patented D90. 6,1887.

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C. B. GARDNER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. GARDNER, OF ALLSTON, (BOSTON) MASSACHUSETTS.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 374,184, dated December6, 1887.

Application filed March 10, 18H1.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLEs B. GARDNER, of Allston, (Boston,) in thecounty of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain' newand useful Improvements in Re frigerators, of which the following is aspeciiication.

My invention relates to refrigerators and especially to the classadapted to family use, and has for its object to provide a device of thecharacter mentioned which shall be at once cheap of manufacture andentirely efficient and convenient in use.

My invention`will first be described, so that others skilled. in the artmay be able to make and use the same, and subsequently pointed out inthe claims.

' Of the drawings hereto annexed and forming a part of thisspecification, Figure l is a front elevation of my improvedrefrigerator, the doors for the purpose of gaining access to theprovisionchamber being represented as open and the hinged sections ofthe lid to the ice-receptacle shown as slightly raised. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a top plan View ofthe spider for supporting the ice-receptacle, showing the body of therefrigerator in horizontal section. Fig. 4 is a section on the line asx, Fig. 2, showing the manner of adjusting the shelves on theirsupports.

Similar letters indicate similar parts Whereverthey occur.

a indicates the body of my improved refrigerator,preferably cylindricalin form,as shown, and composed ofwood pulp chemically treated on itssurfaces in order that a water-proof enameling or coating may be appliedthereto, leaving the interior in its virgin state. This cylinder may besupposed to be forty-four inches high and twenty-two inches in diameter,supported on suitable legs, b I), and provided with two doors, c c,whereby access may be had to the provision-chamber, as shown in Fig. 1.Said provision-chamber is supplied with a revoluble frame consisting oftwo disks, d e, of wood pulp or other suitablematerial, secured to theend of shelf-supporting rods f f, provided with offsets or projectinglugs r/ g for the shelves h h, as most clearly portrayed in Fig. 2. Saidshelves are slightly eut away Serial No. 230,385. (No model.)

or notched on their edges, as represented at t' c', Fig. 4, so thattheymay be adjusted at any suitable point on the shelf-supporting rods f andturned to be supported by the lugs or offsets g thereon, as will beclearly understood by an inspection of said last-mentioned figure. Diskd is supported at substantially its center on a button or pin, j, on thebottom of the refrigerator, and disk c has a pin, It, stepped therein,which pin is secured at its upper end in the hub Z of a spider-frame, m,adapted to support the ice `receptacle a. (See Fig. 2.) Saidspider-frame m is provided with arms o,

preferablyinclined downwardly, the ends of which arms rest on a rim orother suitable support, p, secured to the interior of t-herefrigerator-body.

The icereceptacle, by preference composed of Wood pulp treated asaforesaid, consists of a pan or basin provided at its upper end with arim, q, adapted to rest on offsets or the like formed in or on the upperend of the refrigerator', and adapted to rest at its bottom on hub Z,whereby it is so supported as to insure that the weight of the ice orother material therein will be properly held.

A drip-pan, r, is supported by the hub Z and so arranged as to catch thewater from the melting ice running through the perforations in thebottom of the ice-receptacle and` be carried off through the pipe s,leading down on the interior of the refrigerator and out at t, or to adrawer or other suitable device under the refrigerator, as indicated bydotted lines in Fig. 2.

Perfor'ations u are formed in theice-receptacle toward the upper edgethereof, which permits of a circulation of the air in the refrigeratorthrough the ice-receptacle, as indicated by the arrows in saidlast-mentioned ligure.

The cover or lid o is made removable, and

may be constructed in sections hinged toy gether, as shown, for thepurpose of the easier gaining of access to the ice-receptacle when it lis desired to place therein or remove therefrom some small article orthing.

W represents a ventilator of suitable form, arranged in the upper partof the device, to

still further provide for the circulation of roo fresh air therein.

By my invention it will be Seen that I am enabled to construct arefrigerator entirely of Wood or Wood pulp, which for this purpose issuperior to any material, its cost being considered, now known to me.All of the parts may be easily taken out for the purpose of cleansingand repair and applied with the saine facility. The entire room in therefrigerator may be utilized, and, by reason of the revoluble shelves,access to any article on said shelves may be readily gained.

It is obvious that changes may be made in the form and arrangement ofthe parts within the limits of mechanical skill without departing fromYthe nature or spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isl. In a refrigerator,the combination, with a cylindrical body, a, provided with a rest orsupport, p, of the spider-frame m, provided with the hub Z anddownwardlyextending arms o, the ends of the latter adapted to rest onthe support p, ice-receptacle n, and drippan r, the latter arrangedbelow the former and both supported on or by said hub Z, and a revolubleshelfsupporting frame provided withjournal pins or studs j 7c, theformer secured to or having its bearings in the bottom of therefrigerator, and the latter secured to or having its bearings in hub Z,all constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

2. In a refrigerator, the combination, with a cylindrical body, a,`of arevoluble shelfsupporting frame consisting of the disks d erods f,arranged to extend between the edges or peripheries of said disks andprovided with offsets or projections g, and shelves h, provided withnotches or eut-away parts f,whereby they may be adjusted to differentpositions on said rods and be supported by said offsets or projections,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specificatiomin thepresence of two subseribing witnesses, this 3d day of February, A. D.1887.

GH ARLES B. GARDNER.

Vitnesses:

ARTHUR W. CRossLEY, FRANK S. MAsoN.

